Job Description Salary Range: £26,942 - £29,959 FTE: 1(35 hours/week) Term: Open Closing Date: 13/04/2025 As anEngineering Workshop Technician, you will provide practicaltechnical support and advice to a wide range of students, staff,and project activities. You will design, build, modify, maintain,and repair items of scientific research equipment andinstrumentation as required by academic research within theDepartment of Physics. You will be responsible for maintaining andservicing equipment in the mechanical workshop and in the researchlabs. To be considered for this role you will have completed arecognised apprenticeship, be educated to HNC level or haverelevant industrial work experience in a similar role. You willhave experience with manual and CNC machines, including lathes andmills, and of CAD software as well as experience and demonstrableknowledge of health and safety regulations and procedures withgeneral IT skills, i.e. Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook. You willhave experience of providing a high level of personalresponsibility and experience of applying judgement to deal withdaily challenges and circumstances, with limited guidance from asuperior. You will have strong knowledge within the field ofmanufacturing and mechanical engineering. You will have good verbaland written communication skills with the ability to inform andexplain technical elements to stakeholders with a varying degree oftechnical knowledge. You will have an ability to work autonomously,prioritising and coordinating your own workload and makingdecisions with minimum supervision to meet project deadlines. Theability to deliver strong customer focus, working as part of amulti-disciplinary team is essential. The University of Strathclydeis a leading international technological university focused ondelivering excellent teaching and world-class research and knownfor forging strong collaborative links with industry, government,business and the third sector. Challenging conventional wisdom hasbeen fundamental to the University’s ethos for over 200 years.Today our research activity continues to be of central importancein everything we do – informing our teaching and enabling us totranslate outcomes for the benefit of business, industry andsociety as a whole. We are continually advancing the intensity,quality and international competitiveness of our research. TheDepartment of Physics has an international reputation for teachingand research. Our strong international research profile issupported by excellent mechanical and electronic engineeringfacilities that are key to continued performance at the highestlevels of research. The advertised post particularly supports ourhigh-profile activity in Quantum Technology, where we are involvedwidely in national and international research collaborations.Applications are invited for an Engineering Workshop Technician tojoin the Department of Physics Mechanical Workshop. The successfulcandidate will be part of a team of researchers and othermanufacturing technicians working in the areas of ExperimentalQuantum Optics and Photonics. Central for the role is thecollaborative design and manufacture of precision mechanicalcomponents using CNC and manual lathes, mills, and other mechanicalworkshop machinery. Examples of the technical requirements of theresearch group are customised mechanical adjustment mounts foroptical devices, vacuum components, and machining of laser mounts.The role involves working alongside a team of senior, junior, andtrainee researchers, with collaboration in design and review stagesbeing vital to the overall role. The work will be varied in naturebut will always have a requirement for timely and professionalcompletion and will involve engineering innovative practicalsolutions to facilitate the development and use of equipment forscientific research and applications. Initial interviews for thispost will be held on Friday, 25 April 2025 For informal enquiriesabout the post can be directed to Mr Stephen Ross, SeniorTechnician (stephen.ross @strath.ac.uk).
